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Project: Mr Wong
Client: Merivale group
Location: Sydney
Opened: 2012
The Brief: 1930s Shanghai effect that often includes moody live jazz.
Highlights: Sourced an array of authentic Shanghai girl posters from various auctions and collectors. That was fun. Restored the heavy wooden beams and polished wood floors, adding accents of green to make it pop. Heavily campaigned (and won) to install gas lamp-look lighting to enhance the old world glamour. Won the guests overs. Tricked up the bars and corners with all the right accessories, from first-edition books to vintage barware. Designed the staff’s uniforms to reveal crisply waist-coated, cocktail shaking bartenders who rounded out the aesthetic.